Modi also stressed on important issues like the need to preserve and embrace nature.
Sasikala's letter to the prime minister on the issue comes days after Chief Minister O Panneerselvam urged the Centre to promulgate an ordinance for the conduct of the sport.
A top-level international team of scientists, led by palaeontologist Dr Jorn Hurum of Oslo University's National History Museum, has unveiled an almost perfectly preserved ancient primate fossil that is being hailed as a crucial 'missing link' between the evolutionary branch of human life and the rest of the animal kingdom.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis faces the challenge of ensuring that Dalits and Muslims -- who are likely to be most affected by the beef ban -- do not drift away towards the opposition.
Here's the full text of the maiden address to the nation by President Droupadi Murmu on the eve of Independence Day 2022.
'The administration started intruding into the kitchens and bedrooms of the local community.'
'For the first time in 50 years the people of Lakshadweep who have till now never raised their hands, got out on the streets and started raising their voices.'
'In case of shortage of other raw material, like filters and bags, one can try to develop another vendor. However, for chemicals as critical as adjuvants, this is not possible'
The results for the People's Choice Award for the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year are in.
A snowy fishing village in Greenland, a vulture soaring through the sky in Spain, and a trio of actors gearing up for an opera performance in China all make up the award winners in the 2019 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year awards. Chosen from thousands of entries, the winning snap is called Winter in Greenland and was taken by Weimin Chu. It depicts the fishing village of Upernavik in northwestern Greenland. Chu will receive $7,500 (Rs 5.21 lakh) and a post on National Geographic Travel's Instagram account, @natgeotravel. Here we present the winners in each of the three categories.
Nostalgia in the time of Covid is proving to be big business, observes Aditi Phadnis.
Bollywood stars post pictures with lovely messages on Earth Day.
Images from the Premier League matches played on Thursday.
A photo symbolising "love and compassion" of an 85-year-old Brazilian woman getting her first embrace in five months from a nurse through a transparent "hug curtain" has been named the World Press Photo of the Year. This year, according to organisers, 74,470 images were submitted for judging, made by 4,315 photographers from 130 different countries. World Press Photo has been kind enough to allow to share some of this year's winning photos here with you.
His death puts the species on the very edge of extinction.
The state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has decided to restore the Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Preservation Act, 1964, that governs the slaughter of cattle in the state, Law Minister T B Jayachandra told reporters
Authorities believe the house was a slaughterhouse and tiger holding facility used in a suspected animal trafficking network.
The researchers named the new species Etmopterus benchleyi, after Peter Benchley, the author of the book "Jaws" and co-author of its 1975 film adaptation.
In the last eight months, the government has received over a lakh representations from various organisations from across the country
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The Natural History Museum's annual competition and exhibition, Wildlife Photographer of the Year has been the longest-running and most prestigious nature and wildlife photography competition that has been recognising the world's best nature photography every year since 1965.
Jaw-dropping entries for the 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest keep on coming. Here are 10 more that have impressed the judges -- and it's clear they've got their work cut out. The grand prize winner will win $7,500 (Rs 5.2 lakh) and will be featured on the @natgeotravel Instagram account which boasts 30 million followers.
'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.' 'There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, those who go on living, those who challenge the overall environment of sentimentality.' 'And the more effort you put into including these other voices, into assimilating these spoilsports, the more balanced your depiction of the tragedy in question will be,' observes Sreehari Nair.
For four years, Kinessa Johnson served in the United States Army in Afghanistan. But now she protects some of Africa's most endangered wildlife.
Peasants from Maharashtra's drought-affected Beed district feel the government machinery and politicians are indifferent to their plight.
Here's your weekly digest of unbelievably unusual images from across the world.
Jallikattu is organised at 24 places Tamil Nadu between January 14 and January 17. An event can raise up to Rs 15 lakh in a village
'To keep the next catastrophe at bay, a carbon free economy will be an imperative. 'Our 2000 cc internal combustion engine powered personal cars and public transport may have to give way to electric and hydrogen powered fuel cells. 'The oil refineries which were so much part of my professional life may have to be dismantled and trees planted in its place. 'The smokestacks, which once upon a time represented growth and prosperity, will now be gory symbols of a polluting past,' notes former Hindustan Petroleum chairman Arun Balakrishnan.
In India, thousands of lives are lost every year because of unavailability of organs
If Irrfan could have been our finest professor of empirical philosophy, and Nawaz is our foremost poet of that space halfway between the gutter and the stars, then Jaideep Ahlawat has to be our greatest artist-scientist, asserts Sreehari Nair.
It also sought the assistance of the Centre and states for removing violent content related to cow vigilantism uploaded on social media.
In a viral video circulating on the social media, cow vigilantes can be seen shouting slogans and assaulting two youth for allegedly possessing beef in Malegaon tehsil of Maharashtra's Washim. The cow vigilantes in the video can be seen beating up the young men, and accusing the duo of being in possession of cow meat.
are in the process of building one at the Jio Center in Bandra Kurla Complex where the Maker Maxity building used to be. "This theatre will be on the top of the mall and should be able to accommodate 300 cars, and is expected to open sometime in January or February next year.
Nikita Puri lists ways to keep yourself entertained during the lockdown.
The Delhi high court on Friday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation seeking enactment of a law prohibiting slaughter of cows and sale of beef and such products across the national capital region, terming it as "misconceived".
The Governor said the MPC had voted to maintain its accommodative stance, implying more rate cuts in the future if the need arises.
Cleanse, tone, and moisturise. Avoid sugar, dairy products, animal protein, suggests Shilpa Sharma.
The PM said that the Union Budget will accelerate the economic growth, financially empower every citizen and strengthen the foundation of the economy in the new decade.
'The lessons from tiny New Zealand about mobilising to prevent an environment going up in flames around us and combatting the feral Whatsapp politics of hatred are in many ways Gandhian,' says Rahul Jacob.
Saratchandra wrote when India was under British raj, but his concerns were contemporary.
Kung Fu Yoga assaults both senses and soul, warns Sukanya Verma.
